Rooting interest, Indiana vs Ohio.

So does this mean Indiana is motivated and dominates Ohio in C-bus?
Does Indiana spiral and subsequently nose dive facing Ohio?
Which outcome best aids Michigan?
Either would be a positive. The benefit of great conference depth is knowing your foes are guaranteed a few unexpected L's.

When it comes to conference record, both Michigan and Indiana are 8-2, so from a sheer win/loss standpoint, an Indiana loss helps us in the conference and likely in the polls too. That being said, I will also be cheering for Indiana in that game because my mind is unable to process cheering for their opponent somehow.

This isn't football,most OSU hoop fans are okay. An Indiana loss helps us more. Not that it matters but I think Crean is a total jerk and so are Shehee and Olidipshit. Craft is annoying to play against but like Burke he keeps his mouth shut. Root for the home team.

No their fans are just As bad when it comes to basketball. For example...... My husband and I were on a walk after Michigan lost to Ohio and 3 idiot Ohio fans driving down the road yell at us " who won that game?? Go Blow". Yea, perfect strangers. They are just As bad. You live in Ohio your dislike for them starts to run deep. I root for any team that plays them in any sport:) we've been harassed enough to not root against them. I can't tell you how many times we've been told we have sh*t on our shirts by people we don't even know.

the regular season championship. I will gladly accept it alone or as a tie, but I will trade it right now for the B1G tournament championship. I am really glad that it is not in Indy this year. But I predict one more loss (at MSU?) in the regular season, a final four loss in the B1G tournament, and then clear sailing through the NCAA's!

I really want Indiana to continue to struggle on the road. The knock on them is they can't win without Bloomington home cooking refs. Let this continue.

Indiana fans care about it more, hence, more schadenfreude. Ohio fans know this is a bit of a down year. They just are a step behind Michigan. Having said that, to knock off Indiana in Columbus keeps the home team winning, and makes it more difficult for Indiana.

However, this does not mean I will root for Ohio. In terms of rooting interest, I am merely a dispassionate observer.

At the end of the day, this is as good as it gets . . . someone has to lose, and someone will feel a lot of pain. I don't care who.

Didn't expect their fans to be such assholes, but myself and a friend went down to the game last Saturday in Bloomington, and I'm not exaggerating when I say they're up there with the worst fan bases I've ever encountered, and I grew up in the Lansing area. Just completely awful people, and I'm not basing this on a small sample size, it happened a lot throughout the day. Who gets in someone's face just walking down the street and says "fuck you guys", or "get the fuck out of our town"? Also, grown ass men wearing those IU warm up sweat pants in public.

Couple the way they treat complete strangers for wearing the wrong team colors with a loss helping us in the standings, and I know where I'm at this weekend.

And yes, I know Ohio State fans also suck. I'm on a bit of recency bias here, but fuck IU, forever.

I'm sure Indiana fans got sick of hearing about the best back court in the country and how nice Crisler is and how he can't wait to see it. Vitale is the only announcer that can manage to annoy the entire listening audience

...have you been to Columbus...wearing Michigan gear (albeit not the brightest thing I did when attending Michigan) for a b-ball game? They do not discriminate by sport. I did not hear a single Ohio fan say oh...we only root against you in football...we love your basketball team...they are fun to watch!

This is a toughie, but.... if I can't root for the asteroid, I go with wanting the Hoosiers to win this one.

- The same OSU fans we hate in November? Many of them are also at Value City cheering for their basketball team. The only reason they don't poop in coolers is because there aren't tailgates for a basketball game in February.

- If Indiana was the crean of the crop and OSU was a bunch of scrubs, I'd gladly hold my nose and root for the Buckeyes just this once. OSU is very legit, as we saw Tuesday. I don't want to see them putting it all together and making a run in March. If they revert back to All Deshaun All The Time, I'm fine with that. Also, OSU losing Sunday is a potentially fatal deathblow to another viable conference contender's title hopes.

- Yeah, Crean is a Dwight Schrute-wannabe douchebag, but is Thad Matta substantially better in that regard?

- This isn't like OSU at MSU last season where the result of that game absolutely determined who'd win the conference. There's almost half a season left to play and you can't even say for sure that OSU winning is the best result for our title hopes.

Indiana simply isn't good enough to dominate anyone in the top half of the B1G on the road. Also, I think OSU drops three more games (@IU, @Wisky and home against MSU) to finish 12-6 so I don't view them as a threat. We need more IU losses.

This thread added to the substance of the universe in a very hilarious manner. I'm reading the fateful transcript-and-subsequent-community-revision of the title and scope therin. Classic stuff!

Rooting interest, intra-conference juggernauts (State, Ohio, IU): Usually Away team win--it weakens the homecourt advantage, and anything to make away games less worrying for my team (Michigan) as it potentially plays at these sites in the future. I could go either way but I also root for as many turnovers and sloppy play as possible.